Training pathways for perioperative transesophageal echocardiography

Practice Guidelines for Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography

Echocardiography was introduced in the operating room in the 1970s, with its initial applications involving epicardial echocardiography (EE). The use of transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) during surgery was first described in 1980 and did not become commonplace until high-frequency transducers and color Doppler imaging became available in the mid-1980s. The improved quality of the acoustic ...

Practice Guidelines for Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography

P RACTICE Guidelines are systematically developed recommendations that assist the practitioner and the patient in making decisions about health care. These recommendations may be adopted, modified, or rejected according to clinical needs and constraints and are not intended to replace local institutional policies. In addition, Practice Guidelines developed by the American Society of Anesthesiol...

Practice Guidelines for Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography

P RACTICE Guidelines are systematically developed recommendations that assist the practitioner and the patient in making decisions about health care. These recommendations may be adopted, modified, or rejected according to clinical needs and constraints and are not intended to replace local institutional policies. In addition, Practice Guidelines developed by the American Society of Anesthesiol...

Simulator training for transesophageal echocardiography.

In Reply: We would like to thank Drs. Fletcher and Sharma for their interest in our study.1 We are aware of their study that was published in June 2013 to assess the benefits of transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) simulation training in cognitive skill acquisition among anesthesiology residents in the United Kingdom.2 However, in April 2013, at the time of the initial submission of our artic...

Progress through cooperation: securing a sound training pathway for perioperative transesophageal echocardiography.